Margaret Adie's "very Valuable young Negro Man named Joe" was jailed in December 1816, in Stafford County, charged with an "Alleged offence." A short time before his scheduled trial, Joe escaped. Adie offered a fifty dollar reward, which she advertised in newspapers "as long as there was the most remote probability of recovering him." She is "now fully persuaded" that Joe has left the state of Virginia and "is perhaps residing, secure from the most eager or vigilant pursuit, in Philadelphia, New York or Boston." As she considered her slave "surrendered to the office of the court, to be kept until he was dealt with according to Law," she believes she is entitled to "adequate compensation."
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
